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December 20, 1999 Issue
NY99
The New Yorkers Of 1999
Plus: The New York Awards
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| COVER STORY / NY99 | This year was everybody's last chance to leave a mark on an entire millennium -- and competition to do so was fierce. For our annual awards, New York singled out 12 talented people who managed to outshine the 8 million others this year -- and we couldn't help mentioning 50 more who defined the city (and are busy redefining it in 2000 ways). Real Player Pseudo.com could be the future of television. But its SoHo headquarters are a throwback to the heady days of the Factory -- and flamboyant chairman Josh Harris makes a gleefully eccentric Warhol. GOTHAM DEPARTMENTS The dot-coms were going to reinvent the industry. So did they? Media Anarchist activists made the WTO look eerily like the WWF, but if you don't eat at McDonald's, your world order was unthreatened The Culture Business Philippe Starck has just settled in SoHo; is New York ready for its own designer of aerodynamic juicers?
| MARKETPLACE Best Bets BY CORKY POLLAN Southpaw ergonomics; a teakettle for technophiles; maternity chic Smart City Forget Ticketmaster: How to score tickets -- to Broadway shows, the Knicks, the Berlin Philharmonic -- like an insider Sales & Bargains Stylish satchels priced to leave something in your wallet THE CRITICS Mike Leigh's surprisingly heartfelt ode to Gilbert and Sullivan | Theater BY JOHN SIMON Choose your premillennial poison: Y2K glitches or Space cadets Classical Music The Philharmonic's comprehensive Copland is cause for celebration The Underground Gourmet East 1st Street: the city's unlikely new restaurant row CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |
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